I'M TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AMERICA f 
regal governor of Virginia. The losses sus^ 
iained oh that occasion were estimated at 
8OG,OO0Z. sterling. Towards the harbour 
the streets are narrow and irregular; in the 
other parts of the town they are tolerably 
wide; none of them are paved, and all are 
filthy; indeed, in the hot months of summer, 
the stench that proceeds from some of them 
is horrid. That people can be thus inatten¬ 
tive to cleanliness, which is so conducive to 
health, and in a town where a sixth part of 
the people died in one year of a pestilential 
disorder, is most wonderful! ! * 
* The yellow fever, which has committed such dreadful 
ravages of late years in America, is certainly to be consi¬ 
dered as a sort of plague. It first appeared at Philadelphia 
in the year 1/93 5 in 1794 it appeared at Baltimore} in 
1/95, at New York and Norfolk} and in 1796 , though 
the matter was hushed up as much as possible, in order to 
prevent an alarm, similar to that which had injured the city 
so much the preceding year, yet in New York a far greater 
number of deaths than usual were heard of during the 
summer and autumn, strongly supposed to have been oc¬ 
casioned by the same malignant disorder. 
The accounts given of the calamitous consequences atten¬ 
dant upon it, in these different places, are all much alike, 
and nearly similar to those given of the plague :—The peo¬ 
ple dying suddenly, and under the most shocking circum¬ 
stances—such as were well, hying awa}'- 4 —the sick aban¬ 
doned, and perishing for want of common necessaries—the 
dead buried in heaps together without any ceremony— 
charity at an end—the ties of friendship and consanguinity 
disregarded by many—others, on the contrary, nobly com-’ 
